Spacer for display boxes or cartons



S. H. SONN. SPACER FOR DISPLAY BOXEQ 0R CARTONS- Patented Aug. 24, 1920 APPLICATION FILED MAY 2 4, I920.

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SIDNEY I-I. SGNN, 0F NEVI YORK, N. Y. I

SPACER FOR DIS'.PLAY BOXES OR CARTONS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920.

Application filed May 24, 1920. Serial No. 383,835.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY H. SoNN, citizen of the United States of America, residing at 502 Vest 113th street, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spacers for Display Boxes or Cartons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to spacers such as are placed in display boxes, or cartons, for the purpose of separatin articles held in such boxes.

More particularly, the invention relates to spacers ior oravat, or neck tie boxes. In the method of constructing boxes for neck ties, it is customary so to proportion the boxes that they'will hold about one-half dozen ties, one on top of the other in recesses between partitions extending longitudinally of the boxes. Formerly, these partitions, known as tie blocks, were made separately of paste board and subsequently covered with paper by hand, this requiring a great deal of time and labor.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a tie block or spacer constructed from a rectangular piece of card board so scored and slit that it may be folded to the proper shape to provide all necessary tie blocks for the size of neck tie box used and thus be placed as a unit in such neck tie boxes.

With the above and other objects in view, as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of an improved blank and manner of folding the same hereinafter fully described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed. In the accompanying drawings,

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parts in the several views, and 2-- Figure l is a perspective View of the tie block in the neck tie box, the tie block being constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a View of the blank from whlch the tie block is made, the blank being scored and slit, ready for bending.

In the accompanying drawings, a neck tie box (10) is disclosed which is arranged to accommodate two piles of neck ties and in the particular form shown, the ties for which the box is made known as Club ties.

The blank from which the tie block illustrated is made consists of a rectangular piece of card board or other like material, as shown in Fig. 3 at 11. On one side of this blank 21 e a series of parallel scores (12) extending longitudinally on the blank while similar parallel scores (13) are formed on the other side. All of these scores, with the exception of the outermost score on each side terminate in slits (let) and from the inner ends of certain of these slits, extend di gonal scores (15) which are on the same sire of the blank as scores (12).

From an inspection of Fig. 2 it will be seen that three of the strips defined by the score lines 12 and 18, are utilized in forming, by bending the blank at right angles along these score lines, upstanding ribs, while the strips between the pairs of score lines (13) form bottom strips. It will also be obvious that in case of one or more additional partitions being desirable, the width of the blank can be increased by four strips for each additional partition so that there is no practical limit to the. number of partitions that may thus be formed.

After bending as in Fig. 2, the strips be tween each pair of fold lines 1 and the adjacent fold lines 13 have the slit ends are of the type brought together as shown at 16 in Fig. 1.

and the triangular portions defined by the told 15 and slits 1% are bent down as shown at 17 in Fig. l and secured by clips 18, the whole being then properly secured by clips, glue or other suitable means within the neck tie box, or if desired, simply slipped into the box.

Thus the whole set of tie blocks can be made from a simple recangular strip of card board with no waste and by a simple bending and clipping operation.

T iere has thus been provided a simple and ellicient device or" the kind described and for the purpose specified.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

1. A. blank for tie blocks, consisting of a rectangular piece of foldable material divided into parallel sided strips by fold lines disposed in pairs alternately on one side and the other on the blank, said blank further having slits formed one end in alinement with certain of said fold lines and having triangular portions defined on certain of the strips by diagonal lines extending from the inner ends of certain slits.

2. A tie block consisting of a blank formed from a rectangular piece of foldable material divided into parallel sided strips by fold lines disposed in pairs alternately on one side and the other on the blank, said blank further having slits formed at one end in alinement with certain of said fold lines and having triangular portions defined on certain of the strips by diagonal lines extending from the inner ends of certain slits, said block being formed from said blank by bending the strips in threes 'to constitute ribs, bringing the free ends of the sides of the ribs together, bending the triangular portions of the blank down over said free ends and securing said triangular portions inplace.

In'testimon-y whereof I have aflixed my signature.

SIDNEY 'H. SONN. 

